HOCKEY
Zach Malatesta scored 1:30 into overtime as the Maine Mariners beat the Trois-Riviéres Lions 5-4 on Saturday night in Trois-Riviéres, Quebec.
Maine, which won its third straight, led 3-0 and 4-1 before allowing the Lions to rally with three straight goals in the third period. Cameron Hillis started the rally with seven minutes left in regulation. Anthony Nellis scored just over three minutes later and Shawn St-Amant tied it with 1:44 left.
Tyler Hinam scored a power-play goal in the first period, then Patrick Shea and Conner Bleackely scored in the second period for Maine. Hillis scored later in the second to make it 3-1, but Maine pushed it back to a three-goal lead when Hinam scored early in the third.
Jeremy Brodeur had 43 saves for Maine. Tristan Bérubé and Phillippe Desrosier combined for 24 saves for Trois-Riviéres.
GOLF
PGA: Jordan Spieth put himself into the mix at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and he lived to tell about it.
On a day when Seamus Power went backward to allow a half-dozen other players back in the game, Spieth went backward just to make sure he didn’t fall over a 60-foot cliff.
Even if it might have looked more dangerous than it was, his approach from the edge of the cliff on the eighth hole at Pebble Beach stole the show on a day that typically belongs to Bill Murray, Macklemore and the rest of the celebrities.
Spieth had a 9-under 63, his career low at Pebble Beach, to go from 10 strokes behind Power to one shot behind the leading trio of Beau Hossler, Andrew Putnam and Tom Hoge.
LPGA: Leona Maguire became the first Irish winner in LPGA Tour history, closing with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory in the LPGA Drive On Championship at Crown Colony in Fort Myers, Florida.
Tied with Marina Alex for the second-round lead after a 65 on Friday, Maguire had seven birdies and two bogeys – the last on the par-5 18th with the outcome decided. The 27-year-old former Duke star finished at 18-under 198.
Lexi Thompson was second after a 65. Sarah Schmelzel had a 64 to finish third at 14 under, Alex (72) was another stroke back with Stacy Lewis (68), Patty Tavatanakit (67), Xiyu Lin (63) and Brittany Altomare (68).
EUROPEAN TOUR: Nicolai Hojgaard shot an 8-under 64 to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the Ras al Khaimah Championship in the United Arab Emirates.
The 20-year-old Dane birdied five of his last six for a 54-hole total of 20-under 196, with David Law (69) his nearest rival at 17 under. Tapio Pulkkanen of Finland also carded a 64 and was four shots off the lead.
ASIAN TOUR: Harold Varner III birdied the par-5 18th hole to shoot a 2-under 68 and take a one-stroke lead over Adri Arnaus into the final round of the Saudi International.
Defending champion Dustin Johnson was five strokes back at the event, which paid big appearance fees to lure a slew of PGA Tour and DP World Tour regulars.
FOOTBALL
NFL: Jacksonville owner Shad Khan introduced Doug Pederson as the Jaguars’ coach and said the team has applied to the NFL to hire an executive vice president, a person who would report directly to Khan and oversee Pederson and General Manager Trent Baalke.
It’s a much different structure from what the Jaguars employed the last two years. Khan’s only other EVP was two-time Super Bowl-winning coach Tom Coughlin, who held the job for three seasons (2017-19) and was in place when Jacksonville last made the playoffs.
Khan went with a traditional coach-GM (Doug Marrone-Dave Caldwell) model in 2020 after Coughlin was fired and then hired Meyer to head a coach-centric model in 2021, a setup that ended in less-than-desirable fashion. Meyer was fired in mid-December after 13 games, one of the most turbulent tenures in NFL history.
Jacksonville hired Pederson on Thursday, coming to terms five weeks after the team first interviewed the former Philadelphia Eagles coach. Pederson was one of 10 candidates interviewed in what Khan called an “exhaustive process with no preconceived notions.”
• The Giants are hiring the Philadelphia Eagles’ Brandon Brown as an assistant GM, according to reports.
Brown, the Eagles’ co-director of player personnel, steps in as the right-hand lieutenant to new Giants GM Joe Schoen. He had interviewed for the Minnesota Vikings’ GM job, as well.
SOCCER
FA CUP: When the FA Cup fourth-round game entered stoppage time, West Ham was facing a humiliating loss to sixth-tier side Kidderminster.
Alex Penny had scored in the 19th minute for the National North division’s third-place team who were outplaying the millionaires from London who are only point away from the Champions League places in the Premier League.
Only Declan Rice’s equalizer forced the game into extra time to prevent West Ham from being on the receiving end of the biggest upset in the 150 years of world soccer’s oldest competition. Then to avoid a penalty shootout at the 6,000-capacity central England stadium, it took Jarrod Bowen scoring in stoppage time of extra time to recover a 2-1 victory against the team 113 places lower in the English league system.
• European champion Chelsea needed to come from behind to eliminate third-tier Plymouth 2-1 in extra time at Stamford Bridge to reach the fifth round.
Macaulay Gillesphey headed Plymouth into an early lead and Cesar Azpilicueta leveled via a fine backheel finish just before halftime.
But Chelsea couldn’t find a winner inside 90 minutes. Even after Marcos Alonso scored at the end of the first half of extra time, Plymouth still had a chance to level. But goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga’s guessed correctly to save a late penalty from Ryan Hardie after the Plymouth striker had been fouled by Malang Sarr.
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